It seemed that she only understood the meaning of the word “love,” when in the form of a miserable frog she crouched together in the corner of the sleeping chamber; but the Viking’s wife had listened to the wonderful story, and had felt herself strangely moved by it. On their return...
6. a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning. 7. hieroglyphics, characters or symbols that are difficult to decipher. [1575–85; < Late Latin hieroglyphicus < Greek hieroglyphikós pertaining to sacred writing. See hiero-, glyph, -ic] hi`er•o•glyph′i•cal•ly, adv. Random...
Adj.1.hierarchic- classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first" ...
He had a particularly strong interest in Oriental languages, and was given the task of trying to interpret the writing on the Rosetta Stone. After his success with the Rosetta Stone, Jean-François Champollion continued to decipher the meaning of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. He gifted the ...
In an article some Chinese scholars are described as being "tantalized by the mysterious dragon bone hieroglyphics." Tantalized is one of many English words that have their origins in myths and legends of the past (in this case, Greek and Roman ones). The meaning of the verb tantalize is ...
原来繁体字的“集”是三个隹站立在木(树木)上,The original "collection" of traditional characters is that three 隹of them stand on (trees). 简写以后,就变成一个隹站立在木上,不过二者意思相近。 After the abbreviation, it became a隹 standing on the wood, but the meaning of the two is the sa...
in geology, randomly curved ridges, furrows, and other forms of imprints on the bedding surfaces of some rocks, usually fine-grained ones (for example, in flysch). They are often molds with the irregularities of the surface of that layer on which the next younger bed was deposited (negative...
In the year 1823 he announced that he had discovered the meaning of fourteen little figures. A short time later he died from overwork, but the main principles of Egyptian writing had become known. Today the story of the valley of the Nile(尼罗河流域) is better known to us than the story...
gone in one ear and out the other. It seemed that she only understood the meaning of the word “love,” when in the form of a miserable frog she crouched together in the corner of the sleeping chamber; but the Viking’s wife had listened to the wonderful story, and had felt herself...
The origin of hieroglyphics comes from humans and nature. J&Y Latin letter theory [1] has recently taken a novel approach to the study of the origins of the Latin alphabet, arguing that our understanding of the hieroglyphic meaning of the alphabet should be based directly on the study of that...